The CURE Community Leaders

John Abi-Habib
John Abi-Habib is the Chief Executive Officer of MSI Net Inc, a New York based Networking, Communication, Data Centers, Disaster Recovery sites and Wireless technology Corporation. Founded in 1987 as a banking services firm, designed and oversaw the development of trading floors, private banking solutions, developed applications for the South American, Asian, European, American and Middle Eastern markets. Now MSI stretches its services to the education, government, banking and professional vertical markets.

Mr. Abi-Habib holds a Masters Degree in Management Information Systems/Computer Science from Brooklyn College, a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science and has minored in Accounting and Finance. In the 1980’s early 1990’s, Mr. Abi-Habib served as an Adjunct Professor in Computer Science department at St. John's University, Brooklyn College, the College of Staten Island and Manhattan Borough Community College.
Mr. Abi-Habib serves as a Supervisory board member of the Bay Ridge Federal Credit union, an advisory board member of the State University Of New York (SUNY BEOC) and served as a member of The Board of Trustees of Adelphi Academy, and had been a member of ABANA banking association for over 9 years.

He was invited to and testified before the Council of the City of New York on the topic of Emerging Technology in New York City. Additionally, Mr. Abi-Habib has participated as a panelist and guest lecturer on topics of technology, emerging markets, banking, technology in finance and education for a variety of New York based organizations and corporations both in the public and private sectors. Mr. Abi-Habib served on the Executive board and as Chairman of the Communication and Public Relations Committee at NYC Community Board 10.

In addition, a cofounder and key player in creating the 86th Street Business Improvement District of Bay Ridge, serves on the Executive Board of Directors and chairman of the advertising committee, of The Fifth Avenue Board Of Trade and board member of The Salaam Club Of New York. He also served as a member of the Borough President Task Force on 5th Avenue Business Improvement. He is a former Co-Chairman of the Essay Contest Committee of the Bay Ridge Community Council. Most importantly, he has helped create a great awareness in the need for an effective response mechanism in our community. This has resulted in the creation of The Unity Task Force in 2000 and after 9/11 the creation of CERT (Community Emergency Response Team).

Mr. Abi-Habib created the annual Festival of the Middle Eastern Churches, with over 5000 attendees from the various different ethnic and religious communities of Brooklyn. Mr. Abi-Habib has served as Chairman of the Festival of Middle Eastern Churches since it’s inception in 1999. Mr. Abi-Habib has dedicated the last fifteen years to encouraging groups in the community to become more involved in civic, community and political affairs and events by providing services, civic education workshops, candidate forums, arranging meetings and festivals, and planning positive and constructive prayer services and prayer walks within the community.

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